Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1887-06-09
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TEMPERANCE COLUMN.
Three Good Reasons for Proh,h,,,,.

S. +. Grubb to the Germans in The Uulon sI,,, 4
Germans should be specially intere,.
ell in the suppression OF the liqur ttat. IL; IL;
fic, for three good reasons:
First; They are caIeful. prudent ue, ss
pie, who depend on making wealth h.
economy and thrift, and who are ints,. 81
ested in building up the prosperity of
the country in the same way. Thev 81
are very seldom wasteful or extraya.
giant, either in their own affairs or IN ~
those measures that affect the prosperi- ~
ty OF the country. e
Now 1T is we'll established fact th,,
the liquor traffic is the greatest vast. 81
source in the world. 1t consumes ths
largest amount of capital to give back Il
the least amount of good of any branch 6
of business in the world. 1t is estlma.
ted that there are fifteen hundred mil N
lions Of dollars invested OF spent in the
liquor business-and the results of the
liquor business-in the United States /.
every year. Not one grain of good is
returned in the country as the result Of
that business. The corn, barley and
other grams used in the manufacture Of
liquor, if put into breadstuffs, would
feed the world, and to spare. In this
form it would make blood, muscle,
brain, strength and life. In the form
of alcohol, whisky beer, and other
liquors, it does not add one iota to the
muscle. brain, blood, strength or life Of
any man. 1t simply corrupts and in
jures what there is. Liebeg, the great
German chemist, says there is more
food in one loaf of bread than ina
whole keg of beer. Bismarck says beer
is running Germany. If the millions of
dollars devoted to the liquor business
were diverted into other forms of in
dustry that would promote the welfare
of the homes of the people, there would,
in ten years, be such state of pros
perity in this country as the world
meyer dreamed of. We would hear no
more of labor riots or hard times. Pro-
hibition ought to commend itself to-
this thrifty German people. They ought
to be among the first to protest agains
an organized extravaganza and waste
source.
Second: The Germans are an intelli.
gent. thoughtful people,. In the past
they have been the leaders of thought
in the intellectual world. Now it is a
well known fact that alcohol acts on
the brain exactly as it does on the white
of an egg, because the brain is largely
composed of the same substance as the
white Of the egg, viz, albumen. Get
an ounce OF alcohol and pour it oyer
the white of the egg and see how quick
ly it cooks it. 1t adde's mems brains
in precisely the same way. Alcohol is
one of the few substances. almost the
only one, that undergoes no change in
being taken into the system. 1t comes
out precisely as it goes incomes out
through the pores of the skin, through
the kidneys, through the lungs. You
know one man will blow his breath
into another mans face, to tell HIM
what good whisky or brandy he has
been drinking. Whyp Because there
has been no change in it, in going
through the blood. All other substan~
ces change. He couldn't blow his
breath to let his neighbor know what
kind of meat he had been eating for
dinner. Now it goes into the brain
just as it does into the lungs-un-
changed. Men have been killed while
under the influence of drink, and their
brains will burn with the blue alcohol
fame.
You may say that you drink beer.
and not whisky or brandy. True. my
friend, and there is great difference.
Whisky and brandy contain from forty
to fifty per cent Of alcohol, and beer
from five to seven per cent. But where
men will drink one or two glasses Of
whisky, you drink ten or twelve mugs
of beer, so that you beer drinkers get
just as much alcohol as the whisky
drinkers; and according to the German
homeopathists you get it in way that
does you more harm. Small and fire.
quent doses nave q far more thorough
effect on the system than large single
doses, by the force of cumulative effect.
So if there is any truth in homeopathy,
as we all know there is, beer-drinkers
are more affected by the alcohol in beer
than whisky-drinkers are by the alco-
hol in whisky. Now intelligent.
thoughtful men, like the Germans.
ought to very seriously ponder this
question and see is they can afford to
not cnly injure their own brains, but
to transmit diseased brains to their
children, for we all know that if your
children look like you in the face, they
are going to look like you in the brain
also. Germany does not stand in the
intellectual world where she once did,
and she will never regain her suprema.
cy until her people, both men and
women, put away from them that
which is the secret of their loss of brain
power. Brethren, you cannot afford
for the sake of appetite, to go back in
the scale of intelligence. and set your
children back; but you are doing it as
sure as that science and scientific facts
exist. Put away this evil from our
midst and let your children haye the
chance to come up to their best posi-.
bilities. Don't fetter them down to
the wheel of this great Juggernaut.
Third: Germans are law-abiding citi.
zens. Now it is fact that cannot be
denied, supported by the statistics Of
ali the police and criminal courts Of
the country; that seyen-eighths of the